On 5/16/2013 2:41 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
Because of this dependency line
mintty
cygutils
desktop-file-utils
libglib2.0_0
python-gobject
python
A base Cygwin install now requires Python. Can this be changed? While Python is
a good language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base
install.
I agree. It's an unintended consequence of this change:
2011-10-27 Yaakov Selkowitz <...>
Integrate cygstart with FD.o menu and mimetype system.
* src/cygstart/cygstart.desktop: New file.
* src/cygstart/cygutils.xml: New file.
* Makefile.am: Dist and install these files.
* NEWS: Update documentation.
which caused the (auto-generated) postinstall script to have the
following two commands:
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database
/usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
which in turn, caused the (auto-generated) dependency list to include
desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info.
There are a couple of choices:
1) override the (auto-generated) dependencies to not list those tools
a) then the postinstall script will fail, but maybe that's ok
2) override the (auto-generated) postinstall script to check existence
before calling those tools (and also #1?)
a) at least that way the postinstall script won't report failure
3) teach cygport to autogenerate the postinstall script such that it
checks existence first, before calling the tools.
a) probably too hard to ALSO teach it to recognize conditional usage
of the tools so as to avoid listing desktop-file-utils and
shared-mime-info when auto-generating the dependency list, so
b) probably need to do #1 here, as well.
In the meantime, I'm going to do #1 on the server, so that these deps
aren't pulled in to a base install. That means the script will fail,
until we resolve the issue.
Yaakov, any comments?
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Chuck
cygutils maintainer
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